Week 78
Yup the last week of that transfer is down...Another 6 weeks to go
with Elder Malca haha, because we are staying together!
So to start the week out on Monday we went to listen to "the
most successful man in Peru". It was a super good speech! He talked about how
he started out with nothing and whatnot and how in his mission he read the Book of Mormon and
noticed how its main promise is that if we keep the commandments that God will
make us to prosper and how that gave him this huge motivation. He
talked about why God wants us to be prosperous and gave us tips on how to do
things and it was super motivational.
Practically all of the other days were normal. We started
going to this huge park this is right in front of the chapel here and
contacting for like 2 hours in the afternoon and it is going well! We found
this old lady that ended up coming to church yesterday, which was a surprise. We
also found this former investigator that we had dropped because she just didn't
want to progress, we read the Lesson 1 pamphlet in the park and talked to her
and convinced her to come to church as well so that was cool! She has tons of
problems with her family that we are gonna have to work with but I think she
could be baptized.
On Friday we went to the "Auto-sufficiency Training" and it was
super cool! Wow, we were there from 8:30 in the morning until 6 in the
afternoon. The good news was that we got to one of the Avenues where all of the
buses stop super early and I saw my old ward mission leader in La Molina Vieja
and he was waiting for Miguel, the RM that always accompanied us, and it was
super good to see them. But in the training they made us take our Patriarchal Blessings and look for words that describe us, things it invites us to do, and
promises that are made to us. Then we had to go through this whole process of seeing
who we are, what talents and abilities we have, what are our interests etc... then we had to make 5-year spiritual, career, family, education, etc... goals and 1 year goals and immediate actions. But ya, it was cool. The couple
that gave the training were really effective and let us ask like a million questions, which was helpful. So honestly, my plans for the future didn't change because of that, they are just more formulated now.
We have been organizing an English class here for a while
now. We finally got the system figured out with it. The Bishop printed off
600 fliers and we did a couple of activities with the Young Single Adults in our ward to help pass
them out and whatnot. But what the person that receives it has to do with it
now, instead of just showing up on the specific day, they have to call the
number on the flier and a sister in our ward answers and asks for all of their
information and then gives us the name and address and we go and
"test" their ability to speak while contacting them. Then,
we call everyone and send out an email the day before the class reminding them
to come. Because they have committed beforehand, they come and then its not weird for
us to ask for their address and if we can visit them, because we
already have the information and they already know us and then we just slide
our way in, help them feel the Spirit, and baptize them! Its cool. And the good news is we already have a
ton of people signed up and we have only been passing out the invitations for a couple of days! So I hope it will turn out better than it did in La Molina
Vieja.
Yesterday we went to watch Carlos, a convert, open his
mission call! He just barely hit 1 year as a convert and he got called to the
Chiclayo mission! So that is pretty cool. He always accompanies us. Also, his
best friend is Venezuelan that is from the Barranco ward and that is Jake
Willmore´s ward so I talked to him for a long time and told him to ask Jake
about all of the stories of the stuff we did hahahaha. So ya it was pretty
cool.
Today we are gonna go take out money and then eat and
clean our apartment I think, nothing much. But anyway, all is going well. I hope you
guys read that talk that I sent you because I am gonna be sending them weekly
now so you better start reading them. This week´s talk is brought to you by
Elder Holland, probably my favorite talk given by him. I will put the link here
but I also suggest watching the Mormon Message on it, it comes with more
power...
--
Elder Mortenson
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